Caillois, Roger. — Les Impostures de la Poésie.

Ixelles-Bruxelles, Editions C.I.R.E.B. / Lettres Françaises, 1945 17.5 x 11.5 cm, paperback (original printed wrappers), 72 pages. Text in French. Wrappers toned and lightly soiled, spine somewhat faded. Internally, various pencil annotations and underlinings throughout; several inserted manuscript notes on loose slips of paper, the pages around which have browned more noticeably due to contact with the inserted papers. Ex-libris of E. Noulet on front pastedown (printed bookplate with motto "Quidquid Latet Apparebit"). Bookseller's stamp of A. Van Loock... Bruxelles, on front pastedown. Autograph presentation inscription on first free endpaper, signed "R. Caillois", addressed to "Madame E. Noulet, critique admirée et redoutée, avec toute l'estime de l'esprit, affectueusement." Inserted original mailing card from Editions C.I.R.E.B. addressed to Monsieur et Madame Perisier, Bruxelles. Still in good condition overall, see pictures. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author Roger Caillois to the Belgian literary critic E. Noulet, with her ex-libris. Series: Lettres Françaises, no. 5. Inserted: original publisher's mailing card (imprimé) from Editions C.I.R.E.B., Ixelles-Bruxelles.